Writer Julie Rutterford and director Brian Percival are Bafta winners for their 2001 short film About a Girl; their feature debut is a well-intentioned look at masculinity and fatherhood. Ian Hart plays Joe, who walked out on his family when his son Robbie was just four. Ten years later he shows up in Robbie's life, ironically just as 14-year-old Robbie has become a father himself. Newcomer Kyle Ward gives a good performance as Robbie, and Hart is typically excellent. Their dialogue scenes together at first are gentle, humorous and touching. The problem is that the movie quickly takes a wild, forced lurch into high drama, and Robbie goes on the run, a development which damagingly deprives the film of Hart's presence. I wish they had stuck with the charmingly low-key relationship between Robbie and Joe.